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dmpayton

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I'm just a dude, tryin' to do my best.

- Founder & Executive Director @ rootaccess.org - SJVAir Director @ cencalasthma.org / sjvair.com

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dmpayton··on Google Instant Search Released
In the live webcast they said that they use auto-complete to populate the instant results. Typing "online deg" auto-completes to "online degrees", so that's the query used to generate the instant results.
dmpayton··on Skype Files $100M IPO
> looks like you can use skype on most android phones anyway, though, just not as easily/freely as on verizon.

Serious question: any idea how? Everything I've read says it's limited to Verizon handsets, even when trying to install the .apk manually. I'd love to have Skype on my Vibrant.

dmpayton··on Skype Files $100M IPO
Eh? The Evo was release June 4th, a hair over two months ago.

Also, two Galaxy S phones were released in mid-July, less than one month ago.

dmpayton··on Poll: What is your religion?
Can we have an "It's complicated" option?
dmpayton··on Zed Shaw has Left Dropbox
You know what, forget the blackjack.
dmpayton··on Scientist who cured type I Diabetes in mice was denied funding for human trials
As the husband of a Type I, I would gladly donate a portion of my income if it would go directly to finding a cure.
dmpayton··on Subversion clients can now write to GitHub
Both sites have APIs, it could be done though a third-party. I've thought about giving it a shot a couple times, but I have more important things on my plate.
dmpayton··on San Diego HN meetup is tonight 7:30pm-9:30pm Broadway Coffee in Kearny Mesa
It's a shame I'm feeling so shitty today, or I'd be going. I've been wanting to go to the SD HN meetups for a few months now. :(

Also, how can I get prior notice of when the meetups are? I always here about it day of, which is part of why I've never gone.

dmpayton··on Pay It Forward
Please add me to the list. I've been running off of one 250GB since my 320GB had a hard disk crash, and I could really use the space.
dmpayton··on Ask HN: What are the best free and pay web charting libraries?
I've had good experience with ChartDirector. It can create many different kinds of charts and graphs, is very customizable, and comes with support for several languages.

Their website isn't much to look at, but the software is solid.

http://www.advsofteng.com/

dmpayton··on Ask HN: What tools do you use?
Komodo Edit for most coding because it gives me a consistent UI at work on my Mac and at home on Ubuntu

nano for editing files server-side

Git/Github (work) and Mercurial/Bitbucket (personal) for version control and deployment

scp for those rare instances when I need to transfer files manually

Windows XP in VirtualBox for IE testing and Photoshop

dmpayton··on 3rd San Diego Hacker News Meetup is Tonight, 7:30 PM
Damn, I'm on my way to Fresno to see the wifes family for Easter. I'll have to catch the next one.
dmpayton··on YC Founders at Work Series: Dropbox interview today at 1:00pm PDT
I'm watching the live feed now, but unfortunately the audio is borked and Jessica is muted. Since I can't read lips, I'll have to hope this is fixed when it's put up later.

Edit: It's fixed.

dmpayton··on The Nexus One Is A Flop: 74 Days In, Just 135,000 Sold
In my case it's a $300 loyalty penalty, as I'm on a flexpay plan.
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...are told the resolution, and then say “Huh. OK, if you say so.”

Adding punctuation helps:

John, while James had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had more fun.

dmpayton··on Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
http://www.artificestudios.com/

I've been friends with Antonio for years, and can attest to the quality and professionalism he puts into his work.

dmpayton··on Why Didn’t Pownce Trounce Twitter? – with Leah Culver
Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition.

You should watch the interview. Or atleast let it play in the background while you do other tasks (like I did). She didn't seem to complain about twitter at all, and expressed that she was surprised about all the Pounce vs. Twitter hype when they launched.

dmpayton··on Test your web app in any browser seamlessly
Requires windows, apparently.
dmpayton··on Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
At my current job we have Redmine setup, I throw all my personal stuff up on BitBucket, and two previous startups I worked at used Jira and FogBugz,
dmpayton··on Poll: HNer types
I don't post because I most of my information from HN and Reddit. I let the community be my filter.

I do occasionally comment, though, and I read lots.

dmpayton··on Motorola Droid hands on
A lot of the comments here seem to be about how ugly the device is. While I agree that they could have done a better job to make it more aesthetically pleasing, it's the hardware and software that are important. It could be a bright pink Hello Kitty phone, and I'd still want it.
dmpayton··on Django Debug Toolbar Screencast
I agree that it should not be in contrib, but it might be useful to have a doc page listing useful tools that ease development (DDT, South...)
dmpayton··on 'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter
Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do.

"Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read," Grant says. "You know, the love of reading — [the show] encouraged kids to pick up a book and to read."

Seems to me that if more kids had a love of reading, they'd pick up the rest themselves, and the government wouldn't have to focus so much on cramming basic phonics down their throats.

I attribute RR as one of the reasons I had such a high reading level as a child. It made me want to read, so I did. And the more I read, the better I became at it.

dmpayton··on Ask HN: Founders, what title do you use in email?
Do not lie to me.
dmpayton··on Ask HN: Advice for freshmen entering college
Keep your head on straight and you'll do fine. :)

FWIW, it's been awesome having you around at work, and I wish you the best of luck at Olin.

dmpayton··on Ask HN: Where do you live?
I work in Solana Beach, and am looking for an apartment in SD to cut down my hour commute from Fallbrook. Any recomendations on decent areas of the city?
dmpayton··on Greetings from Beautiful Mountain View, Calif.
I recently moved from Campbell to San Diego. I miss Silicon Valley. :(
dmpayton··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Doing my 9 to 5 at http://www.cukerdesign.com

Nights and weekends are split between developing my side-startup (a service to help makes diabetes management simpler), the occasional WoW session, and spending time with my wife and year-old daughter (not necessarily in that order).

Also planning a natural language datetime parsing service with a friend who was an old boss at another startup.

dmpayton··on Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome.
Not just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).
dmpayton··on Ask HN: Good web-based icon editor?
+1 for Pixlr. I use it quite often when I don't want to reboot or launch VirtualBox for Windows/Photoshop and only need some minor tweaks.
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